PowerPoint Show by Andrew

July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918

Part #2

The soldiers were men, young and old, and the opportunity to look into their faces and see the emotion, their humanity, instead of a uniform or nationality, is a gift - a real window into the world a century ago.

While soldiers bore the brunt of the war, civilians were involved on a massive scale as well. From the millions of refugees forced from their homes, to the volunteer ambulance drivers, cooks, and nurses, to the civilian support groups used by all major armies, ordinary people found themselves at war.

French soldiers in a group photo wearing medals. The medals appear to be the Military Medal, established on 25th March, 1916, for acts of bravery.

Private Ernest Stambash receives a cigarette from Miss Anna Rochester, American Red Cross volunteer at Souilly, Meuse, France, on October, 1918.

A French officer has tea with English military personnel.

German prisoners assist in bringing in Australian wounded.

Highlanders on the Western Front, killed and later stripped of their socks and boots, 1916.

German military kitchen, 1917.

A German soldier is captured coming out of a trench, 1916.

French soldier whose face was mutilated, being fitted with a mask.

Red Cross volunteers.

Guiseppe Uggesi, an Italian soldier who was in an Austrian Prison Camp at Milowitz, confined to bed with tuberculosis in January of 1919.

Some Canadian wounded being taken to the dressing station on a light railway from the firing line.

German troops in Finland during the Finnish Civil War, part of a series of conflicts spurred on by World War I. Red troops, both men and women, ready for deportation from Hango, in April of 1918.

French dragoon and chasseur soldiers at the beginning of World War One.

Portraits of a German prisoners taken by an official British photographer, to be shown to folks back home.

Villagers greet the arrival of British troops.

Western Front. A Captured British soldier salvages the valuables of fellow Englishmen killed in battle, in April of 1918.

Three young-looking German prisoners of war.

Between Laon and Soissons, German railway troops wash their clothes beside 50 cm shells, on July 19, 1918.

September 1916. Bodies of German soldiers strewn across the bottom of a trench.

Watched by a group of locals, German prisoners of war walk down a street in the French town of Solesmes, on November 1, 1918.

French patrol in occupied Essen, Germany.

A Russian soldier being buried where he fell. Russia lost some two million men in combat during World War I.

German machine-gun nest and dead gunner at Villers Devy Dun Sassey, France, on November 4, 1918 -- one week before the end of the war.